JinxyPoop
County: UK
Posts: 886

1073574 Yep... Tis a pity… because I do find a lot of his one lines to be very good... tis a pity as I said that he chooses to ignore certain elements and then has a misguided attack on my good self.

You do the exact same only the inverse. get over yourself. I don't see you defending culchies or crying foul at snuffs one trick pony idiot rants? I'm talking about every thread going down the exact same route thanks to certain dub posters and you are slowly joining the same club. Like you regularly say, "there's a bigger picture here lads"

Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12387 - 22/11/2011 11:51:30    1073589

You're making a mountain out of mole hill Breff... it was only a harmless butt back at Mickey... and stop with the painful exaggerating with this "every thread" nonsense

If you have a valid point there's no need to exaggerate. Slagging goes on all the time on this site... just look at the Eleven a side forum...

You've no problem mixing it over there in the ABU threads... so please don't be preaching this nonsense to me about "Knowing better" and "Rising above it" - because they are tow qualities that you also lack.

You're truly full of it Breff...

JinxyPoop (UK) - Posts: 1162 - 22/11/2011 11:52:38    1073591

Interesting thread but once again hijacked by eejits like MickeyLinden who must wake up and go to sleep every night thinking of the greatness of Kerry football, torturing himself relentlessly. Poor man.

Cute_Kerry_Hoor (Kerry) - Posts: 2518 - 22/11/2011 11:52:44    1073592

hill16no1man
County: Dublin
Posts: 1272

1073536 it depends what county your from i suppose


Precisely, as an Irishman through and through, 2011 was a very upsetting year. To see the Great Satan triumph in our most sacred of citadels was a traumatising abomination of stratospheric proportions.

Horse (Laois) - Posts: 1146 - 22/11/2011 11:54:14    1073594

Breffni39
County: Cavan
Posts: 6374

crying foul at snuffs one trick pony idiot rants?

Thats not fair now Bref, Snuff is renowned as the Master of all Baiters!

Horse (Laois) - Posts: 1146 - 22/11/2011 11:55:47    1073596

Looks like horse swallowed a Bible this time

Stick your fingers down your throat and you may be able to puke it back up matey

gigoer (Wexford) - Posts: 1998 - 22/11/2011 11:57:19    1073598

90's for me. I had only started to play football when An Dún picked up their 4th All ireland in '91. I thought it would be like this every year. I simply think it is better for the GAA to have new teams winning provincials and Sams/Liams. Things change and the organisation is what it is now but I will always count myself lucky to have seen great players and famous moments that made the 90's. I still have a few VHS tapes from '91-'97 which have been converted to DVD and given out as gifts to nostalgic old boys like myself.

Suas Sios (None) - Posts: 1558 - 22/11/2011 11:59:56    1073601

Mickey and Breff ruined this thread!!....I was enjoying whatever the discussion was about before that!!

Regards,

Snufalufagus....Laochra Gael

Snufalufagus (Dublin) - Posts: 8100 - 22/11/2011 12:03:06    1073604

The biggest mystery to me is how that great down team only won 2 all Ireland, mason blaney Carr linden withnell mccarton now that is a serious forward line.

clondalkindub (Dublin) - Posts: 9926 - 22/11/2011 12:05:45    1073606

Yes Breffs "ignoring" approach can be seen in full swing here...

JinxyPoop (UK) - Posts: 1162 - 22/11/2011 12:07:55    1073607

clondalkindub
County: Dublin
Posts: 947

1073606
The biggest mystery to me is how that great down team only won 2 all Ireland, mason blaney Carr linden withnell mccarton now that is a serious forward line.

Good point after 94 they never did anything. They came out of nowhere to win in 91 but looked like they would kick on and win a few more after 94

moomoo (Kerry) - Posts: 4023 - 22/11/2011 12:10:38    1073611

The only way he can really ignore me is to start by turning off those damn 'text alerts' he has set up on his phone that go off every time i post on HS!!

Regards,

Snufalufagus....Laochra Gael

Snufalufagus (Dublin) - Posts: 8100 - 22/11/2011 12:12:32    1073613

JinxyPoop
County: UK
Posts: 888

1073607 Yes Breffs "ignoring" approach can be seen in full swing here...

The only person I'm not ignoring is you man. Like I said you know better than to run with this crowd of wums. thats my orignal point and it hasn't changed, even if you are trying to change it. I'm not angry Jinxy, just disappointed.

Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12387 - 22/11/2011 12:12:59    1073615

Breffni39
County: Cavan
Posts: 6375

1073615 JinxyPoop
County: UK
Posts: 888

1073607 Yes Breffs "ignoring" approach can be seen in full swing here...

The only person I'm not ignoring is you man. Like I said you know better than to run with this crowd of wums. thats my orignal point and it hasn't changed, even if you are trying to change it. I'm not angry Jinxy, just disappointed.
________

hahaha - sorry Ma

Would you stop... :) Go on about your business... talk to you

JinxyPoop (UK) - Posts: 1162 - 22/11/2011 12:16:27    1073619

The only person I'm not ignoring is you man.
Breffni39 , 22/11/2011 at 12:12
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Brilliant!.....the above post to Jinxy from Breff means I am being ignored and its clarified!!.....A LONG AWAITED DAY INDEED!!.....Brilliant, I will never hear from Breff again!!

Regards,

Snufalufagus....Laochra Gael

Snufalufagus (Dublin) - Posts: 8100 - 22/11/2011 12:24:06    1073626

Snufalufagus
County: Dublin
Posts: 3808

Brilliant!.....the above post to Jinxy from Breff means I am being ignored and its clarified!!.....A LONG AWAITED DAY INDEED!!.....Brilliant, I will never hear from Breff again!!

Regards,

Snufalufagus....Laochra Gael

Fair play for puttin on that brave face big guy.

You hang in there buddy, you hang in there.

Horse (Laois) - Posts: 1146 - 22/11/2011 13:34:54    1073688

The biggest mystery to me is how that great down team only won 2 all Ireland, mason blaney Carr linden withnell mccarton now that is a serious forward line.

Good point after 94 they never did anything. They came out of nowhere to win in 91 but looked like they would kick on and win a few more after 94.

That Down team had been around for some time before Pete McGrath took charge in 1990. Remember Mickey Linden had been playing for the County Since 1982! and Greg Blayney since 1981. In fact wee Pete really only introduced two players from the successful minor team of '87, James McCartan & Conor Deagan.
The set up in Ulster was even tougher then as you had to play the same County two years on the trot i.e. if you beat them at home you faced them away the following year with no back door!

Also Derry were a super team at this time and knocked Down out in 92 & 93. In fact the games between Down & Derry from 91 to 94 (5 in total) were all top quality encounters. I always felt that if Derry had more free scoring forwards they would have won more all Irelands.
But to answer the other Mickey Lindens question, the 90s for me were the best as teams played to win

ballybannongael (Down) - Posts: 547 - 22/11/2011 14:03:14    1073710

Football wise the 90's win out easy enough. The standard of football in the country was higher overall and the various provincial Championships were brilliant to watch at times. Down, Meath, Derry, Dublin, Donegal, Tyrone, Cork, Mayo, Galway, Kildare were all challenging with good sides while Kerry struggled badly in the early part of the decade. That Dublin side was a bit unlucky as they ran Ulster teams very close when they played and though there was controversy in their win over Tyrone in 95 they were worthy of at least one All Ireland in that period. Down had a fantastic team; Mickey Linden, James McCartan, Greg Blaney, Ross Carr all great ball players while Derry and Donegal had teak tough fellas who could play football as well. The Dublin/Meath quartet of games will go down in history though let's not pretend that there wasn't cyncical stuff going on as well. Ulster was very physically competitive while Dublin and Meath battered each other as did Mayo and Meath (Colm Coyle on his own) in 96. Meath in particular got a lot stick for their 'tactics' though they were a very good football side. The 00's brought more tactical play to the fore with systems dictating play and while some may scorn that the fact is there were still very good footballers around as well. Maurice Fitzgerald still there, Dara O'Se, Dara O'Cinneide, Seamus Moynihan, the Gooch, Oisin McConville, Stevie McDonnell, Ronan Clarke, Stephen O'Neill, Brian McGuigan, Peter Canavan still around, Sean Cavanagh, Cormac McAnallen (RIP) all very good footballers. The term 'puke football' was a lazy cop out used by people with a sinister agenda who were bitter about SAM going over the border and who have a very partitionist mindset; indeed Larry Tompkins wrote an article highlighting this when Tyrone and Armagh met in the 2003 final. He said there was sour grapes going on outside Ulster as some didn't like this new Northern resurgence. However football is cyclical and now it's Dublin's turn and maybe they and Kerry will dominate again for a few years BUT then someone else will come to the fore and so on; that's what makes sport great.

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9819 - 22/11/2011 14:16:24    1073721

Horse
County: Laois
Posts: 764

1073594
hill16no1man
County: Dublin
Posts: 1272

1073536 it depends what county your from i suppose


Precisely, as an Irishman through and through, 2011 was a very upsetting year. To see the Great Satan triumph in our most sacred of citadels was a traumatising abomination of stratospheric proportions.

what laois actualy won in dublin must have been in the under 16s

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 22/11/2011 14:59:18    1073755

I suppose the back door has made it easier for teams to win an All Ireland. In the 90's the All Ireland champions could be out after there first game wheres as now they get another chance. In the 90's Down could have won 1 or 2 more All Irreland had there been a back door. That said there was a back door in hurling in the 90's and only one team won by it so maybe it was just a more open championship then

moomoo (Kerry) - Posts: 4023 - 22/11/2011 15:02:34    1073760